Company Spotlight

GROOVE X

GROOVE X is a Japanese startup that was founded in November 2015 by Kaname Hayashi, who once led development of Softbank's Pepper robot. GROOVE X is developing a companion robot called LOVOT that will be released in 2019.

GROOVE X is a Japanese startup that was founded in November 2015 by Kaname Hayashi, who once led development of Softbank’s Pepper robot. GROOVE X is developing a companion robot called LOVOT that will be released in 2019. GROOVE X isn’t releasing many details about LOVOT at the moment, but check out the teaser video below.

As a teaser for its groundbreaking LOVOT companion robots, scheduled for release in 2019, Japanese start-up GROOVE X has adopted a guerilla approach, placing billboards in strategic locations with the aim of taking its promotion viral. One of these billboards was placed outside of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, as a gesture of respect for SpaceX CEO Elon Musk